Caryl

There is nothing as fascinating as watching adult discus serenely gliding by with fry clinging to their sides. Hope you reach this stage soon Staplez. Can't help wth advice as I have never kept discus.

They are slow to grow and I understand they are not as nutritious when older. Most just use newly hatched ones to feed fry. Mine just grew in a container of salt water.

You'd better keep an eye on him. With keeping 2 females going you wouldn't want him to die from exhaustion

I too have sat a short fluoro economy bulb on the glass lid and covered it with a length of plastic guttering lined with aluminium foil. Works well and looks good. Lurk around a building site and chat up one of the builders. They are bound to have some offcuts for free

I would suspect a 'what' rather than a 'who'. I think the damage seen may have been done after they died. Any chance of looking at guts and stuff under a microscope? Was there body damage as well? I would assume if they had been attacked by another fish they would show more damage rather than just missing fins.

You didn't 'get lucky' it was a result of hard work and a lot of thought. Well done!

Welcome to the fishroom and NZ. Yes, The Pet Warehouse is where to go to find out about the local club as they have their meetings there Marty (southern_man) is a member of the Dunedin club and can help you there too.

http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/viewtopic.php?t=2406

How long has he been in the new tank with his new buddies? Is it possible he is being hassled by one of his 'mates'?

You should go away more often 8)

Who's had himself a handy little Christmas then! :lol: Looking good.

Depends on the plant and how much light the room gets as to whether you use any light at all but you certainly don't need uv. I use plain white fluoros (get the short economy type fluoros from the supermarket)

Fish poo

Welcome to the fishroom Bruce. You will have to join the Hawkes Bay Aquarium Society! You might be interested to know you are the second Bruce from Napier in here The other one owns Deco City Pets.

Welcome to the fishroom richms 8)

Many build their own or get a joiner to make wooded ones or an engineering company for steel ones.

Welcome to NZ Mydion 8)

Welcome Glen. Taranaki has an active aquarium club too so I suggest you join. Clubs can be a great source of cheap tanks, fish, plants etc usually.

Since you have posted here guppyover2 I removed your other post from the Fun section. I would think the angels would find the fins too tempting but as I have not kept Bettas, it may pay to wait until someone who has answers you.

My brother in law has a pond with a pipe directly into the storm water system for easy cleaning. He thought he had been careful the other day but was just in time to see 2 goldfish head down the pipe. "Oh well," he thought, "that's that." A couple of days later he wondered what had happened to the fishes so wandered down the road and looked down the storm water grill in the gutter. There he saw the 2 fish swimming around! So he fished them out (no pun intended) and took them back to the pond :lol:

He is aptly named!

Great pics! Looking forward to seeing progress. Some people's Christmas's are better than others :bounce:

Proof that smoking is bad for you - especially if you are a fish! :lol:

Just remove the shell

Welcome Mikey. We have a few people in here interested in frogs and lizards etc. I used to have gheckos.